This week’s parsha presents a fundamental mitzvah d’oraisa (from the Torah) instructing us to possess and dwell in Eretz Yisrael. The verse, “וְהוֹרֵשׁתֶּם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ וְיָשַׁבְתָּם
The OU Women’s Initiative—an initiative dedicated to women’s leadership, training and high-level daily learning—has launched its Torat Imecha Halacha program, in which short, daily halacha
Quarreling is bad news. Even quarreling over something that affects us personally is really negative and something everyone should try their best to avoid. However,
Hidden beneath the surface of parshat Pinchas, the Sages uncovered a story of great poignancy. Moses—having seen his sister and brother die—knew that his own
Part II This past June, I was honored to lead TABC’s 22nd annual voluntary post-finals Torah learning. It was deeply moving to see 25 talmidim
Our current war is an existential struggle over Jewish survival and Jewish identity. The curtain has been lifted as our enemies no longer speak about
This week is my granddaughter Etty’s second birthday. She’s named after my mother-in-law, Rebbetzin Ita Singer, a”h. I remember holding her as a newborn in
Parshat Pinchas As we begin the three week period of semi-mourning that precedes Tisha B’Av, so we begin the series of three haftarot of condemnation
Calev’s Message The Jewish people were afraid. The meraglim returned from Eretz Yisrael with a terrifying report. The land was beautiful but inhabited by giants
A young refugee—who had lost his entire family in the Holocaust—and arrived in New York in the mid 1940s, Rav Chaim Tzvi Schwartz was at
Shortly before Pesach vacation began in Heichal HaTorah this year, a conscientious student who takes his spiritual growth seriously asked to speak with me in
Sefer Bamidbar contains two censuses, one at the beginning of the Sefer (taken a year after the Exodus), and one in our Parsha (taken in
